Philosophical movie quotes

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

God doesn't move us by telling us the facts. He moves us by pains and contradictions. He's given me a lack of understanding: not answers, but questions. An invitation to marvel.

Don't be afraid of death... but rather the unlived life.

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?

What we do in life echoes in eternity.

If you had a chance to change your fate, would you?

Does this unit have a soul?

Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment when love begins but we always know when it ends?

Every man dies, not every man really lives.

We're all stories in the end.

What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!

I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask.

Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass? Could you but see the eyes in your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share.

Even in dark times, we cannot relinquish the things that make us human.

I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. The enemy was in us.

For the first time, I feel time like a heartbeat, the seconds pumping in my breast like a reckoning; the numinous mysteries that once seemed so distant and unreal, threatening clarity in the presence of a truth entertained not in youth, but only in its passage.

I knew a man who once said, 'Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.'

What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.